Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.